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"Daytona" Suits 10 Watches

I called this box "Daytona". I am a motoring enthusiast and my favourite brand is Ferrari. One of my favourite cars is the Ferrari Daytona so I named this box after that model. ​

​It is designed to hold 10 watches on foam pillows in separate compartments. The pillows sit loose in the compartments so there is room for larger, modern style watches. ​THIS BOX IS AVAILABLE NOW

It is individually numbered and a great gift for special occasions such as birthdays, anniversaries, house warming gift, christmas gift or just as a gift for yourself!

It is lined with velour and it is externally approximately 35cm x 23cm x 10cm.​Compartments are 6cm x 8.8cm

​It is made using Huon Pine,(history below) a rare Australian timber from Tasmania and powder coated metal. All fixings are polished stainless steel and are decorative security screws.

The strip of wood on the lid is also Huon Pine.

PROCESS : I designed and made this box by hand using mostly hand tools with some machining involved. I formed the steel with a roller/folder and hand cut the wood to fit the shape inside the steel shell. I first complete the box with bare wood and steel and then i pull the box to pieces. I clean the steel and then send it to be powder coated. All the heads of the screws are rubbed back and polished. I sand the wood back to 600 and then 2 coats of Shellawax is applied. I then reassemble the box, lining the box with velour in the process. When it is finally together i then number and name and photograph the box.

Huon PineHuon pine is one of the slowest-growing and longest-living plants in the world. It can grow to an age of 3,000 years or more. Only the bristle-cone pine of North America lives longer.Huon pine is found in western Tasmania on the Central Plateau and in the Huon Valley.Huon pine is a relic of Gondwana - the first pollen records date back 135 million years.International headlines were made with the discovery of a stand of Huon pines on the west coast still growing from a base root more than 10,000 years old. All the trees are male and are genetically identical. No individual tree in the stand is 10,000 years old; rather, the stand itself has been in existence for that long.In the early 1820s, convicts on Sarah Island, in Tasmania's remote west, constructed ships from Huon pine. The wood contains oil that retards the growth of fungi, hence its early popularity in ship-building. Later, piners on the Franklin and Gordon rivers felled Huons and floated them downstream.Today, the tree is wholly protected and cannot be felled. However, wood on the forest floor, or buried in river beds, remains usable after hundreds of years and is still prized by modern woodworkers.

Large Watch Box made of Powder Coated Metal and Huon Pine

​I called this watch box "Daytona". I am a motoring enthusiast and my favourite brand is Ferrari. One of my favourite cars is the Ferrari Daytona so I named this box after that model. ​

​It is designed to hold 10 watches on foam pillows in separate compartments. The pillows sit loose in the compartments so there is room for larger, modern style watches. ​THIS BOX IS AVAILABLE NOW

It is individually numbered and a great gift for special occasions such as birthdays, anniversaries, house warming gift, christmas gift or just as a gift for yourself!

It is lined with velour and it is externally approximately 35cm x 23cm x 10cm.​Compartments are 6cm x 8.8cm

​It is made using Huon Pine,(history below) a rare Australian timber from Tasmania and powder coated metal. All fixings are polished stainless steel and are decorative security screws.

The strip of wood on the lid is also Huon Pine.

PROCESS : I designed and made this box by hand using mostly hand tools with some machining involved. I formed the steel with a roller/folder and hand cut the wood to fit the shape inside the steel shell. I first complete the box with bare wood and steel and then i pull the box to pieces. I clean the steel and then send it to be powder coated. All the heads of the screws are rubbed back and polished. I sand the wood back to 600 and then 2 coats of Shellawax is applied. I then reassemble the box, lining the box with velour in the process. When it is finally together i then number and name and photograph the box.

Huon PineHuon pine is one of the slowest-growing and longest-living plants in the world. It can grow to an age of 3,000 years or more. Only the bristle-cone pine of North America lives longer.Huon pine is found in western Tasmania on the Central Plateau and in the Huon Valley.Huon pine is a relic of Gondwana - the first pollen records date back 135 million years.International headlines were made with the discovery of a stand of Huon pines on the west coast still growing from a base root more than 10,000 years old. All the trees are male and are genetically identical. No individual tree in the stand is 10,000 years old; rather, the stand itself has been in existence for that long.In the early 1820s, convicts on Sarah Island, in Tasmania's remote west, constructed ships from Huon pine. The wood contains oil that retards the growth of fungi, hence its early popularity in ship-building. Later, piners on the Franklin and Gordon rivers felled Huons and floated them downstream.Today, the tree is wholly protected and cannot be felled. However, wood on the forest floor, or buried in river beds, remains usable after hundreds of years and is still prized by modern woodworkers.